BIOLOGIST

René Dubos

1901 - 1982

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René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Dubos has received more than 113,330 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. René Dubos is the 600th most popular biologist (down from 477th in 2019), the 3,961st most popular biography from France (down from 3,448th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Dubos ranks 600 out of 1,097. Before him are Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Erwin Stresemann, Edouard Van Beneden, Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. After him are Jack Horner, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Ludwig Diels, Richard Lydekker, Philip Henry Gosse, and Edmond de Sélys Longchamps.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, René Dubos ranks 200. Before him are Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Nora Gregor, Alfred Müller-Armack, Claude Aveline, Hugo Haas, and Franz Konwitschny. After him are Alexandre Alexeieff, Franco Rasetti, Michael Oakeshott, Erich Ollenhauer, Gaston Waringhien, and Valerian Pidmohylny. Among people deceased in 1982, René Dubos ranks 161. Before him are Haskell Curry, Fritz Laband, Adoniran Barbosa, Giorgio Abetti, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, and Marietta Shaginyan. After him are Ngaio Marsh, Seraphim Rose, Alexandre Alexeieff, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Jimmy McGrory, and Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Dubos ranks 3,961 out of 6,770. Before him are Lassana Diarra (1985), Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924), René Llense (1913), Johann Fischart (1546), Noël Bas (1877), and Sidney Govou (1979). After him are Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma (1933), Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892), Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Alphonse Legros (1837), J. R. D. Tata (1904), and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Dubos ranks 82. Before him are Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Antoine Risso (1777), and Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800). After him are Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), and Émile Duclaux (1840).

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